Insecticide composition



Unrren @TATES Parent Price.

FRANK M. HOWARD, on CAMERON, TEXAS.

lNSECTlClDE COMPOSITION.

fL-PECIFICATIOIQ' forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,531, dated M'arch 2%, 1885. Application filed July 30, 1884. (No specimens.)

To all whom ii may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. HOWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cam eron, in the State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Insecticides, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in insecticides, and has for its object to destroy the red ant and other noxious insects. This object is attained by the following compound, and by the method of using the same, as hereinafter described: bisnlphide of carbon, one pound; brimstone. (1oll-su1phur,) two ounces;

carbolic acid, (cryst.,) two ounces; phosphorus, half-ounce. Dissolve the brimstone in the carbon, add the carbolic acid, and then the phosphorus.

Directions for use: Pour a table-spoonful of the compound in each entrance of the bed,

light it with a match, and allow it to burn ten (10) minutes. 7 Then stop all the entrances well by pressing the earth firmly with the foot. This keeps the gas which has been generated in their cells, which kills them.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is v The herein-described compound, consisting of bisulphide of carbon, one pound; brimstoue, (roll-sulphur,) two ounces; carbolic acid, (cryst.,) two ounces; phosphorus, halfounce, mixed together in the proportions herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, FRANK M. HOWARD. \Vitnesses: V

J AS. W. SELF,

R. S. BOYKIN. 

